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Originally Posted by smooth
I googled around to try and find a single documented case of battlefield executions, but I couldn't find one. So maybe in Hollywood this happens, but I doubt it's something done in real life...unless the UCMJ also calls for executions without trials?
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BOR gave one, and here's a particularly interesting one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Patricios
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...Those who had entered Mexican military service following the declaration of war were hanged en masse for treason in full view of the two armies as they fought the Battle of Chapultepec (12 September 1847). By order of General Winfield Scott, 30 San Patricios were to be executed at the precise moment that the flag of the United States replaced the flag of Mexico atop the citadel. When the flag was run up the fortress' pole, the gallows were dropped.
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